517 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2018, ISBN: 978-2-503-56855-3, \u20ac 100 excl. tax
\nSeries: Monoth\u00e9ismes et Philosophie, vol. 24<\/p>\n
Philosophy has never been an obvious life choice, especially in the absence of apparent practical usefulness. The intellectual effort and moral discipline it exacts appeared uninviting \u201cfrom the outside.\u201d However, the philosophical ideals of theoretical precision and living virtuously are what has shaped the cultural landscape of the West since Antiquity. This paradox arose because the ancients never confined their philosophy to the systematic exposition of doctrine. Orations, treatises, dialogues and letters aimed at persuading people to become lovers of wisdom, not metaphorically, but truly and passionately. Rhetorical feats, logical intricacies, or mystical experience served to recruit adherents, to promote and defend philosophy, to support adherents and guide them towards their goal. Protreptic (from the Greek, \u201cto exhort,\u201d \u201cto convert\u201d) was the literary form that served all these functions. Content and mode of expression varied considerably when targeting classical Greek aristocracy, Hellenistic schoolrooms or members of the early Church where the tradition of protreptic was soon appropriated. This volume seeks to illuminate both the diversity and the continuity of protreptic in the work of a wide range of authors, from Parmenides to Augustine. The persistence of the literary form bears witness to a continued fascination with the call of wisdom.<\/p>\n
Table of contents
\nProtreptic: A Protean Genre \u2014 Olga Alieva
\nClassical and Hellenistic World
\nProtreptic and Poetry: Hesiod, Parmenides, Empedocles \u2014 Miguel Herrero de J\u00e1uregui
\nProtreptic and Pythagorean Sayings: Iamblichus\u2019s Protrepticus \u2014 Johan C. Thom
\nProtreptic and Epideixis: Corpus Platonicum \u2014 Yuri Shichalin, Olga Alieva
\nProtreptic and Apotreptic: Aristotle\u2019s dialogue Protrepticus \u2014 Douglas Stanley Hutchinson and Monte Ransome Johnson
\nProtreptic and Epistolography: Epicurus \u2014 Jan Erik He\u00dfler
\nProtreptique et ex\u00e9g\u00e8se : l\u2019exhortation chez Philon d\u2019Alexandrie \u2014 G. Hertz
\nProtreptic and Philosophical Dialogue: Cicero \u2014 G. Tsouni
\nImperial Rome
\nProtreptique et auto-exhortation : les Lettres \u00e0 Lucilius de S\u00e9n\u00e8que \u2014 Jordi Pi\u00e0 Comella
\nProtreptic and Paraenesis: The Second Epistle of Clement \u2014 James Starr
\nProtreptique et apolog\u00e9tique : Justin Martyr \u2014 Sophie Van der Meeren
\nProtreptic and Medicine: Galen \u2014 Vincenzo Damiani
\nProtreptic and Satire: Lucian \u2014 Markus Hafner
\nProtreptic and Rhetoric: Clement of Alexandria \u2014 Marco Rizzi
\nProtreptic and Mystagogy: Augustine\u2019s Early Works \u2014 Paul van Geest
\nProtreptic and Autobiography: Dio\u2019s Thirteenth Oration, Justin Martyr\u2019s Dialogue with Trypho and Cyprian\u2019s To Donatus \u2014 Annemar\u00e9 Kotz\u00e9
\nProtreptic and Biography: The Case of Marinus\u2019s Vita Procli \u2014 Constantin Ionu\u021b Mihai
\nProtreptique et isagogique : Les vestibules de la philosophie \u2014 Sophie Van der Meeren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"